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Time to Give

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One of the many things I'm enjoying about being a Realtor® is I have the time to give back. During the pandemic I helped deliver boxes of donated food to immunocompromised families or those facing hardship as a result of Covid-19. I enjoyed this so much that when the organization ended I sought out other opportunities. Since June, I've been volunteering with a church on Allison Hill to deliver food to low-income families in our community. And now, this past Saturday I had the pleasure of planting trees in Midtown, Harrisburg with Friends of Midtown (FOM). Standing proudly with one of our new trees at Green and Herr Streets. The whole thing started back in April 2018 when the beautiful cherry blossom tree in front of my little house on Penn Street had to go. This tree was one of the reasons I loved my house. It provided lots of shade, privacy, and a delightful rain shower of pink petals every spring. But the tree wasn't a good fit for city life and started to become a hazar...

An Introduction

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The Carriage House Well folks, I've finally done it - started a blog! This thing has been incubating for almost a decade at this point but I've always been hesitant to pull the trigger. I've never attempted a blog before, but I imagine it's similar to having a houseplant. It needs to be watered, pruned, fertilized, and regularly tended. Spoiler alert: I have about a 50% success rate with houseplants. So no promises here, but I'm going to try my best to keep this thing alive. First a little bit about how I got here on my journey... Back in 2005, I was living in a tiny apartment in the now restored Riverview Manor . My rent was only $450 a month including utilities! Life was good but I'm a fixer, reformer, and problem solver at heart and I needed something to tinker with and call my own. I found a cozy carriage house in Midtown Harrisburg and fell in love.  Five years later I upgraded to a larger townhouse Uptown but couldn't bear the thought of losing my fir...